Word: crabgrass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in crops and livestock. The rains needed for the red clay failed to fall three out of the past six years. In July the unrelenting heat went to 105 degrees, then 107 degrees. Mockery came in the past few weeks when the heavens relented, bringing floods followed by crabgrass. Southern fields look green, but the corn leaves are twisted in knots, the peanut crop has shriveled...
...have many other home builders. From coast to coast, the housing industry is flourishing like crabgrass. The U.S. Government reported last week that sales of new homes surged by 27.4% in March, to an annual rate of 903,000, the highest level on record. In many areas, including California's San Fernando Valley and the suburbs of Boston and Chicago, houses that come on the market are sold within days or even hours. The cause of all the commotion is clear: mortgage rates have fallen to an eight-year low. Interest on fixed- rate loans is as little...
...racquet gouges that the world's No. 1 tennis player, John McEnroe, slashes furiously into Wimbledon's crabgrass scarcely qualify yet as this ! kind of mark. But he has just turned 26 and has not exactly been silenced, or even quieted. Maybe he will grow into a greater mantle. Of all the athletes in their prime, Martina Navratilova should have the nearest understanding of where Gretzky and Bird are situated. For the past three years, her grip on women's tennis has made Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate...
Unlike the old rich, Florida's nouveaux have no time for gardening. There are service companies to zap the crabgrass and prune the azaleas. In fact, most new Boca abodes come with preplanted gardens. One developer installed 350 royal palms on his plots. Other services take care of pools and window-washing. There are almost no live-in servants in any of the houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan...
...organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when, in his memoirs, he laments the loss of financial eminence of his colleagues-- "Harvard professors (now) disappear at night into the distant Boston outskirts, there to do engage in the suburban middle-class struggle with teen-age delinquency and crabgrass"--it explains more than the changed living arrangements of the Harvard faculty...